florida {UsingR}

County-by-county results of year 2000 US presidential election in Florida

Description

The florida data frame has 67 rows and 13 columns.

Gives a county by county accounting of the US elections in the state of Florida.

Usage

data(florida)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

County

Name of county

GORE

Votes for Gore

BUSH

Votes for Bush

BUCHANAN

Votes for Buchanan

NADER

Votes for Nader

BROWN

a numeric vector

HAGELIN

a numeric vector

HARRIS

a numeric vector

MCREYNOLDS

a numeric vector

MOOREHEAD

a numeric vector

PHILLIPS

a numeric vector

Total

a numeric vector

Source

Found in the excellent notes Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics by John Maindonald. (As of 2003 a book published by Cambridge University Press.)

Examples

data(florida)
attach(florida)
result.lm <- lm(BUCHANAN ~ BUSH)
plot(BUSH,BUCHANAN)
abline(result.lm) ## can you find Palm Beach and Miami Dade counties?